As I said on the topic of early adopters of Macan EV, "they roll it out then figure it out", when it comes to a completely new product, which this is, since it does not share anything with the previous iX3.
What happens now to all the first customers since the first year of allocations completely sold out. They will find out more things wrong with it, that is the point, so hopefully not by being shocked when leaning on the car.
Has always been the case to never buy/take delivery of a new car within a year of its launch.
there's always stuff “under the hood” that gets updated/improved once real life and production feedback starts, even before these software-driven days.
I would say after covid it seems like the whole car industry took a wrong turn.
New products often deviate from established brand stylings (look at the new Ferrari Luce).
Everyone seems to have reliability issues with new platforms.
Shift to EVs did not turn out the way everyone hoped.
New player - Chine - has entered the chat with a lot of disruption.
Legacy brands have a tough time...